Quotatious:"You
can't run a country by a book of religion/ not by a heap, or a lump, or a
smidgeon. . ."---Frank Zappa.

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to
stand by the President."---President Theodore Roosevelt.

"Take care, beware of greedy leaders/ they'll take you where you should not go. .
."---George Harrison.

"As democracy is
perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of
the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their
heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." ---July
26, 1920, H.L. Mencken in The Evening Sun.More
Quotatious
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"So if I understand you correctly,
Jesus, I nuke Iran and then invade N.
Korea? Or do I nuke N. Korea and then
invade Iran? And do I do this after
we spread the bird flu at anti-war
protests and quarantine all the commies?
"

THE CASE FOR
IMPEACHMENTby DAVE LINDORFF
and BARBARA OLSHANSKY
"Any American who wants to preserve what's left of our precious Bill
of Rights from further encroachments, and to repair the
Constitutional separation of powers vitiated by George Bush, should
read this essential book -- which should also be force-fed to every
single member of Congress."
-- Doug Ireland, LA Weekly

IF YOU READ ONLY ONE ARTICLE,
READ THIS ONE:
This article from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel superbly covers the
influence of PNAC in Bush's decision to go to war with Iraq. As the
author writes, the goal is to transform the Middle East through a show
of U.S. military might and "the obvious place to start is with Iraq,
which was already in trouble with the United Nations, had little
international standing and was reviled even by some Arab nations."http://www.jsonline.com/news/gen/apr03/131523.asp

Terry
Gross Devotes "Fresh Air"to Project For A New American CenturyListen to PNAC head and PNAC criticHEREURL:http://freshair.npr.org/day_fa.jhtml?display=day&todayDate=04/01/2003NPR's Gross conducts probing interview about blueprint for Bush foreign policy that
predates 9/11.
Guests: Joseph Cirincione, specialist in defense and proliferation issues
at the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace, and Weekly Standard editor William Kristol, head
of the PNAC.

THE LIKUDIZATION OF THE WORLD:THE TRUE LEGACY OF 9/11by Naomi Kleinhttp://www.commondreams.org/views04/0909-04.htm
Common wisdom has it that after September 11, a new era of geo-politics was ushered in,
defined by what is usually called the Bush Doctrine: pre-emptive wars, attacks
on terrorist infrastructure (read: entire countries), an insistence that all
the enemy understands is force. In fact it would be more accurate to call this rigid
world-view The Likud Doctrine. What happened on September 11 2001 is that the
Likud Doctrine, previously targeted against Palestinians, was picked up by the most
powerful nation on Earth and applied on a global scale. Call it the Likudization
of the world, the real legacy of September The Story Behind the Project for a New American Centuryby William Rivers Pitthttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1665.htm

THE PNAC---BUSH'S ACHILLES HEELby Bernard Weinerhttp://www.crisispapers.org/Editorials/PNAC-Primer.htm
EXCERPT: "I'm not making up this stuff," I said. "It's all talked about
openly by the neo-conservatives of the Project for the New American Century -- who now are
in charge of America's military and foreign policy -- and published as official U.S.
doctrine in the National Security Strategy of the United States of America." The
talk-show host seemed to gulp, and then replied: "If you really can demonstrate all
that, you probably can deny George Bush a second term in 2004." Two things became
apparent in that exchange: 1) Even a well-educated, intelligent radio commentator was
unaware of some of this information; and, 2) Once presented with it, this conservative
icon understood immediately the implications of what would happen if the American voting
public found out about these policies. Project for a New American Century Websitehttp://www.newamericancentury.org/

STATED GOAL OF THEPROJECT FOR A NEW AMERICAN CENTURY:
"Control the 'International Commons' of cyberspace."

UNCLE RUMMY SEZ:"If a
person is determined to fight to the death,
then they
may very well have that opportunity."

"The past is prophetic in that it asserts that wars
are poor chisels for
carving out peaceful tomorrows. One day we must come to see that peace is
not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at
that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means. How much
longer must we play at deadly war games before we heed the plaintive pleas
of the unnumbered dead and maimed of past wars?"---Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr.from http://www.peacefultomorrows.org/
-- an organization founded by 9/11 families

update:WHAT DID ISRAEL
KNOW
IN ADVANCE OF 9/11?
http://www.counterpunch.org/ketcham03072007.html
Meanwhile, two days after the men were picked up, the owner of Urban
Moving Systems, Dominik Suter, a 31- year-old Israeli national,
abandoned his business and fled the United States for Israel. Suter's
departure was abrupt, leaving behind coffee cups, sandwiches, cell
phones and computers strewn on office tables and thousands of dollars of
goods in storage. Suter was later placed on the same FBI suspect list as
9/11 lead hijacker Mohammed Atta and other hijackers and suspected
al-Qaeda sympathizers, suggesting that U.S. authorities felt Suter may
have known something about the attacks. HOW FBI
MAVERICK O'NEILLMIGHT HAVE PREVENTED 9/11Forced out of the bureau by petty rivals, the Al-Qaeda expert
died in the WTC attack, where he had taken a job as head of security. If you see only one
film about 9/11, see this factual account of a brave FBI man.http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/view/

CONNECTING BUSH TO 9/11This is a respected U.S. senator saying this stuff, not some conspiracy nut
by Mike Whitneyhttp://www.progressivetrail.org/articles/040909Whitney.shtml?mail=09
EXCERPT: Senator Bob Graham's new book, "Intelligence Matters" is a political
tsunami. Along with many unexplored allegations concerning both 9-11 and the war in
Afghanistan, Graham creates an important link between the Bush Administration and the
attacks of Sept. 11. This connection corroborates the suspicions of many Americans who
have studied 9-11 and believe that the administration may have facilitated the attacks by
suppressing FBI investigations of terrorist activity in the US. . .Graham's book provides
crucial evidence that the administration can be implicated in the greatest case of
criminal negligence in the nation's history. His claims significantly reinforce
the view that the Bush regime may have intentionally created the conditions for a massive
terrorist attack to facilitate their ambition of a global war for the world's
dwindling oil reserves. (Rip Post comments: The Rip Post Editorial Board has maintained all along that
the administration deliberately ignored the threat of terrorism, deliberately
awaited a major attack on U.S. soil, in order to have the Pearl Harbor-like event that the
Project for a New American Century wrote of in its "Rebuilding America's
Defenses" paper, in order to gain support for Neocon military and economic hegemony
around the world. Whitney's is one of the first articles to make this point. Sen. Bob
Graham deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Here is the quote from the PNAC paper,
"Rebuilding America's Defenses": , "the process of transformation, even if
it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and
catalyzing event -- like a new Pearl Harbor.") HERE COME THE NEW NUKESCarlyle Group grabs control of weapons labsin Berkeley, Livermore, Los Alamosby Leuren Morethttp://www.sfbayview.com/091504/ucregents091504.shtml
EXCERPT: In a stealth takeover by the Carlyle Group, facilitated by five admirals, the
management contract will be transferred next year to the University of Texas, where the
military and the Carlyle Group will have control. A new ramping up of the
nuclear weapons program is underway, with program funding at the highest level ever - even
higher than during the Cold War  extending nuclear weapons into outer space, into
the very atmosphere that makes life on earth possible, and with no real enemy
in sight.RELATED:THE NEW NUKE PLANTS:
TAXPAYERS SUPPORT, INDUSTRY PROFITShttp://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2005/10.html

NEOCONS CALL FOR NEW WORLD
WARConquer Syria, Iran, N. Korea---declare France and Germany enemieshttp://www.rense.com/general47/manif.htmlhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400061946/commondreams-20/102-0232407-7376146ASLEEP AT THE WHEELby Bill Moyershttp://www.alternet.org/election04/19839/
EXCERPT: "The system failed" is the catchphrase now in vogue in Washington.
Critics and fans alike of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush still rely on this hollow
analysis. But "the system" is no mindless mechanism operating independently of
the men and women individuals with names, power, and obligations  who are charged
with making it work. Before "the system" can fail, they must fail. . . Americans
deserve better than to allow accountability to be passed off as a mere abstraction; they
should know where the buck stops. The nearly 3,000 men and women who died on 9/11 deserve
better.THE UNFEELING PRESIDENTBY E.L. DOCTOROWhttp://www.easthamptonstar.com/20040909/col5.htm
EXCERPT: I fault this president for not knowing what death is. He does not suffer the
death of our 21-year-olds who wanted to be what they could be. On the eve of D-Day in 1944
General Eisenhower prayed to God for the lives of the young soldiers he knew were going to
die. He knew what death was. Even in a justifiable war, a war not of choice but of
necessity, a war of survival, the cost was almost more than Eisenhower could bear. But
this president does not know what death is. He hasn't the mind for it. You see him joking
with the press, peering under the table for the weapons of mass destruction he can't seem
to find, you see him at rallies strutting up to the stage in shirt sleeves to the roar of
the carefully screened crowd, smiling and waving, triumphal, a he-man. President Paranoiaby Rip RenseI seem to recall George W. Bush chanting "I'm a leader" to a
hypnotized public during the last so-called election. Is he? Would a leader preach
defeatism? Bush does. To listen to him and his advisors, one can only conclude that: We
are a beaten nation. We are whipped. We are cowed. We are defenseless.
To listen to Bush and Co., Osama has us on the
ropes, and can take shots at will. He's Punch, we're Judy. He sends threatening videotapes
at his whim, from his secret cave in the Unknown Mountains, in the Land of Nowhere, and
the United States responds that there is nothing to be done about it,
or that wimpiest of non-statements: "We're doing all we can."
Pitiful. CLICK
HERERip Post Rebuts the Prez!TheRip Post Editorial
Board responds to Bush's Iraq Anniversary Speech.
CLICK HERE

Benjamin Franklin to the Continental Congress:"In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its
faults, if they are such; because I think a general government necessary
for us, and there is no form of government, but what may be a blessing to
all the people if well administered; and believe further, that this is
likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in
despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become
so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other."http://www.nysec.org/addresses/ka011903.html"

WHY
WAS SHEEHAN ARRESTED
AT BUSH'S STATE OF THE UNION?
hereWHY WAS SAUDI ACCUSED OF SUPPORTING AL-QAEDA
WELCOME AT STATE OF UNION?
hereREP. WOOLSEY STATEMENT
ABOUT SHEEHAN
hereSHEEHAN'S STATEMENT
hereWHY WAS GOP REP'S WIFE ALSO
ARRESTED AT SOTU?
hereREPUGS SPIN OUTRIGHT LIES
ABOUT SHEEHAN ARREST
here

INTERVIEWS:CHUCK SPINNEY EXPLAINS IT ALLLongtime Pentagon Insider Shows How the Big Corrupt Game is playedSPINNY BIO: http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/spinney.html
THE INTERVIEW: http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript230_full.html
EXCERPT: I don't want to diminish the terrorist threat in people's minds. The problem is
that if you start thinking about how you deal with these kinds of threats, you don't need
B-2's. You don't need ballistic missile defense. You don't need Comanche helicopters.
Basically what you need are really highly trained individuals that are basically...
understand economics, anthropology, and as well as fighting, particularly in close
quarters combat which is the most difficult form of fighting. And basically that these
guys can insert themselves and infiltrate these nodes at lower levels of distinction. Not
this nation v. nation conflict. Q&A:Amy Goodman Interviews Robert Fisk: Looking
Beyond War http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15729Gore Vidal: The Erosion of the American Dreamhttp://www.counterpunch.org/vidal03142003.html

"Today we must face the fact that the United States is neither
omnipotent nor omniscient -- that we
are only 6% of the world's population -- that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94%
of mankind --
that we cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity -- and that therefore there
cannot be an
American solution to every world problem."---President John F. Kennedy

COMMENTARIES:WHY I FLED
GEORGE BUSH’S WARby Joshua Key
http://www.macleans.ca/world/global/article.jsp?content=20070205_140356_140356
Joshua Key, 28, was a poor, uneducated Oklahoma country boy who saw the
U.S. army and its promised benefits -- from free health care to career
training -- as the ticket to a better life. In 2002, not yet 24 but
already married and the father of two , Key enlisted. He says his
recruiting officer promised he'd never be deployed abroad, but a year
later he was in Iraq. Only 24 hours after arriving, as Key recounts in
The Deserter's Tale (Anansi), he experienced his first doubts about what
he and his fellow soldiers were doing there.IRAQ VETERANS LEFT IN LURCH
BY OVERBURDENED V.A.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/48894/
Chronic under-funding, communication breakdowns and nightmarish
paperwork have left the VA system woefully unprepared for future
veterans: the tens of thousands currently deployed in the war on terror.BRZEZINSKI BOOK
CHRONICLES DECLINE OF USAWhen a leader missteps, a
world can go astrayby Michiko Kakutani
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17245.htm
What this book does most strikingly is remind the reader just how
drastically things have changed since the fall of the Berlin Wall in
1989 and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union. At that point, Mr.
Brzezinski writes, America was “globally admired” and “faced no peer, no
rival, no threat, neither on the Western front nor the Eastern front,
nor on the Southern fronts of the great cold war that had been waged for
several decades on the massive Eurasian chessboard.” A mere decade and a
half later, he argues, the United States is “widely viewed around the
world with intense hostility,” its “credibility in tatters,” its
military bogged down in the Middle East, “its formerly devoted allies
distancing themselves.”LEADING
CAUSE OF TERROR?
WHY, IT’S THE WAR ON TERRORWhat a surprise
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/48620/
An authoritative U.S. study of terrorist attacks after the invasion in
2003 contradicts the repeated denials of George Bush and Tony Blair that
the war is not to blame for an upsurge in fundamentalist violence
worldwide. The research is said to be the first to attempt to measure
the "Iraq effect" on global terrorism.RAPE IS PAR FOR THE COURSE IN
IRAQMission accomplished, Mr. Prez!
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/02/22/violating_iraqi_women.php
As Iraqi women’s organizations have documented, sexualized torture is a
routine horror in Iraqi jails. While this woman may be the first Iraqi
rape survivor to appear on television, she is hardly the first to accuse
the Iraqi National Police of sexual assault.
MCGOVERN: KEY TO NUKE-FREE
MIDDLE EAST IS ISRAEL
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17215.htm
The ultimate aim, in my view, should be a Middle East free of nuclear
weapons. That, I am confident, would stop whatever plans the Iranians
have to develop nuclear weapons. And please do not tell me that, because
Israel would not agree, we cannot move in this direction. The U.S. and
others can provide the necessary guarantees of the security of Israel.
And Israeli intransigence on this issue is not a viable middle- or
long-term strategy that serves Israel’s interest or the interest of
justice and peace.LINDORFF:
BUSH IS AN ‘UNLAWFUL COMBATANT’What else can you call someone who is funding Al-Qaeda, as Bush is?
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/2007.02.01_arch.html#1172528495699
Now we learn from ace investigative reporter Sy Hersh, speaking on CNN,
that Bush and his criminal crew have been using this illicit, stolen
cash to fund covert attacks on Iranian targets, and that much of the
money has been going--get this--to Sunni jihadists linked to
Al-Qaeda--the very people we're fighting in Iraq!HERSH:
BUSH BUDDIES UP TO THE SUNNISEr, gee, I seem to remember uh. . .weren’t they uh. . .Saddam’s
people?
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/070305fa_fact_hersh
To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush
Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in
the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has coöperated with
Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations
that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is
backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations
aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has
been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant
vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda.
Must readingRAIMUNDO:
USA IS NOW ALLIED WITH AL-QAEDA! We're playing the Sunni card in the Middle East – and that means
playing footsie with al-Qaeda
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10580
So let's get this straight: U.S. taxpayer dollars are subsidizing
al-Qaeda's emerging Lebanese affiliate. Remember that as you fill out
your income tax forms this year. The "war on terrorism" sparked by
al-Qaeda's 9/11 attack has ended with the U.S. in alliance with bin
Laden's boys against a supposedly emerging Shi'ite threat. Now how
bitter is that ironic twist? THE BIG PICTURE
by Rip Rensehttp://www.riprense.com/bigpicture.htmWHEN MOTHERS DIE IN COMBATby Anthony Gancarskihttp://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/gancarski1.htmlCORPORATE VULTURES SWOOP INby Ted Rallhttp://truthout.org/docs_03/042603I.shtmlTHE MARCH OF FOLLYby George McGovernhttp://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030421&s=mcgovernThe Bush Credibility Gap: What He Said, and What He Did http://www.house.gov/appropriations_democrats/caughtonfilm.htm